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Program & Schedule: Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Online Registration Closed

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Split This Rock will enter a fallow season on July 1, 2021, and all of our external programming and publishing efforts are on pause until April 1, 2022. We’re excited for time to dig into deeper wells of creativity for: 1) expanding the organizations’ capacity for working towards liberation; 2) defining more concretely what working towards liberation means at Split This Rock; 3) increasing the impact of our poetry, resistance, and community building offerings; and 4) more deeply aligning the organization’s mission with its systems, protocols, and practices. Learn more about the inspiration, projects, and goals for fallow season at the News from Split This Rock webpage. Visit the fallow season webpage to explore responses to frequently asked questions. We’re eager to continue engaging with you! To be invited to fallow season community gatherings we’ll be hosting, be sure to complete this online form.

Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness invites poets, writers, activists, and dreamers to Washington, DC for four days of poetry, community building, and creative transformation. The festival features readings, workshops, panel discussions, youth programming, parties, activism—opportunities to speak out for justice, build connection and community, and celebrate the many ways poetry can act as an agent for social change.

Click the links below to view each day's program. June Jordan-themed events are denoted with three asterisks (***).

Wednesday, March 21

6:30-8:30 pm       KICK-OFF READING AND RECEPTION

Join us for a kick-off reading and reception in the Langston Room of Busboys and Poets—2021 14th Street NW.

Featured poet Kathy Engel, plus Sam Hamill, Alexis DeVeaux, and Adrienne Torf—all friends of June Jordan—will give a brief, informal reading of June's work. Plus, greetings from Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin.

Then: Visit registration to pick up your badge! Wednesday evening you may do so at at Busboys and Poets. From Thursday to Saturday, the registration table will be in the lobby of the Thurgood Marshall Center (1826 12th Street NW) from 9 am to 4:30 pm.

Your badge is your ticket to all events and readings. The festival is completely sold out, so without a badge you won't be able to gain access to these events. Please wear your badge at all times.